Writer Frank Kensaku Saragosa, who was formerly homeless, poses near a sidewalk encampment in San Diego. SAN DIEGO — Omaha native Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village. “I used to stay over there,” he said, pointing to an […]
Motivos Magazine and NKCDC teamed up to surprise Brigitte Zigglih and Eliot Olaya with public displays of their poetry. A poem by Brigitte Zigglih, Junior at Girard College, called “My Work Is Not Yet Done”, is seen at a bus stop along Frankfort Avenue and Palmer Street in Philadelphia, Pa., Thursday, Sept., 29, 2022.Read more […]
‘This programme is an act of defiance, a challenge to those who would curtail free expression and the tolerant exchange of ideas, and a catalyst for global change’. As Ukraine’s sportsmen and women have already demonstrated over the past seven months with their inspirational performances at various international events, there’s more than one way to […]
Culture The decommissioned Wylfa nuclear power station on Anglesey. Photo by rodtuk is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Philippa Holloway I’m a firm believer that writing comes from place. Stories arise from characters who are somewhere, stories involve events that occur somewhere, writers create a somewhere on the page into which the reader can step, […]
MBW’s World’s Greatest Songwriters series celebrates the pop composers behind the globe’s biggest hits. In this edition, we meet Per Gessle, one half of Sweden’s second most successful band of all time, Roxette, and the writer behind all their biggest hits. World’s Greatest Songwriters is supported by AMRA – the global digital music collection society […]
La Jolla author Zoe Ghahremani never stops writing. She’ll lead a workshop during the San Diego Writers Festival on Saturday, Oct. 8. She will lead a workshop during the San Diego Writers Festival this weekend. La Jolla resident and author Zoe Ghahremani has found success in knowing her worth, and she hopes to impart the […]
Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village. “I used to stay over there,” he said, pointing to an embankment off Commercial Street near Interstate 5. Saragosa, 56, was anxious that some of the homeless people in the sidewalk encampments […]
Picture are Lelia Moskowitz, author of “Growland,” and Kathy Wollenberg, author of “Far Less.” (Photo by Janine Volkmar) Lelia Moskowitz, author of “Growland,” and Kathy Wollenberg, author of “Far Less,” have been part of a writing group since 2003, and both wrote novels published by The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt in 2020 just as […]
Click here to view original web page at Local High School Seniors invited to participate in inaugural essay writing contestThe Newnan Times-Herald Hometown Novel Writers Association and the Town of Sharpsburg invite all Coweta County high school seniors to participate in their first Essay Writing Contest. The guidelines for entering the contest are: Be in […]
Click here to view original web page at The Women’s Prize for Fiction launches competition for unpublished authors If you’ve been wanting to put pen to paper for years, or have a novel in your head waiting to be told, now is the moment to get going… Now in its third year, The Women’s Prize […]
